Senior Frontend Engineer

About Translucent

Translucent is revolutionising the accounting landscape by addressing the financial challenges faced by 5-7% of companies globally. Founded by seasoned entrepreneurs who previously sold a successful multi-million dollar company and have extensive experience with leading global firms, Translucent brings unparalleled expertise to the table. Recognised as the Xero App of the Year in 2022 and 2023, we are headquartered in London, UK. Our diverse team operates remotely across various locations, adhering to the London timezone. We gather twice a year for onsite meetings and host multiple in-person events to foster collaboration and innovation.

About the Role

Translucent is a company of people with a relentless curiosity. We are building a community of people who solve real problems for customers regardless of the technical stack or roadblocks in front of them. We hire engineers with a broad set of technical skills who are highly cross-functional and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges.

Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of building functional and delightful interfaces, bringing a thoughtful approach to crafting seamless user experiences, thrives to own projects, from initial concept and design to scaling robust solutions into production.

What You’ll Do

• Build and Ship Scalable Solutions. Leverage your expertise to design, develop, and deliver high-quality, production-ready features and products that scale to meet user needs.
• Transform Ideas into Reality. Collaborate with product, business and design teams to translate ideas into robust engineering solutions, ensuring alignment with user and business goals.
• Craft Exceptional User Interfaces. Use your proven experience with Frontend Engineering experience to build and enhance complex, intuitive interfaces that delight users.
• Recruit, refer, interview, and develop your own interview questions while fostering a culture of excellence, velocity, and humility.
• Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers.

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of building and shipping solutions is preferred.

• Track record of delivering high-quality products and features at scale.
• Ability to turn and create business and product ideas into engineering solutions.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft.
• Proven experience with Typescript, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience in building complex interfaces.
• Consolidated experience with Next.JS, tRPC and Node.JS.
• Experience partnering with Product Designers to implement design systems (we use Figma, Design Tokens and Styled Dictionary).
• Experience developing and implementing testing procedures to ensure software quality (experience with Playwright and Jest is preferable).

Benefits

• Salary: Up to £105k p.a. + option package
• Holidays: 23 days p.a. + the days between Christmas and New Year + Local public holidays
• Location: Remote, working in UK/PT timezone +/- 2 hours.